July 26, 201313 yr Picked up Clive Cusslers -The Tombs and World War Z. Not sure which I'll read first.
July 27, 201313 yr Author Picked up a set of books called "The Engineer Trilogy" by K.J. Parker at a yard sale. Anyone read/heard of these?
July 27, 201313 yr Just finished an interesting read about some college kids in the early 2000s that started an online poker site, lived the big life, made lots of money, and then watched it crash when the US govt essentially ruled online poker illegal. Straight Flush by Ben Mezrich. Started a book about legendary Boston mobster Whitey Bulger.
July 27, 201313 yr Picked up a set of books called "The Engineer Trilogy" by K.J. Parker at a yard sale. Anyone read/heard of these? No, but according to Wikipedia, K.J. Parker is a pseudonym & the writer's true identity has never been revealed. Fantasy Fiction seems to be the author's chosen genre.
July 27, 201313 yr No, but according to Wikipedia, K.J. Parker is a pseudonym & the writer's true identity has never been revealed. Fantasy Fiction seems to be the author's chosen genre. Last fantasy I read was back in high school. Always started out the same: Dear Penthouse.
July 27, 201313 yr Author Last fantasy I read was back in high school. Always started out the same: Dear Penthouse. I'm sincerely hoping that this series isn't in the same vein.
July 27, 201313 yr Fort Thomas Highlands Football, by Bill Thomas. Probably the only book I will read cover to cover this whole year.
July 27, 201313 yr I'm sincerely hoping that this series isn't in the same vein. For some reason that made me laugh out loud.
July 28, 201313 yr As some might know, I have been in and out of both the St. E's ER, Hospital and have had two surgeries since the end of June. 1st visit June 22nd for a period of four days due to not being able to urinate due to my Prostate being too large and having over two and a half litters of urine in my bladder and my system full of E-coli. TERP surgery was scheduled for July 10th but on July 5th I went back to the St. E's ER with a nine out of ten pain in my right side and my blood pressure through the roof. Turns out I had a badly and I do mean a badly infected Gall Bladder and so within three hours the Surgeon at St. E's took it out and I spent another seven days in the Hospital. Last Wednesday the 24th I had my TERP surgery and it was successful and in another four to six weeks I will be back to normal but I am very weak and have lost nearly fourth five pounds from two fifteen to now around one seventy five. Why am I writing all this, to explain that if it weren't for my Audible Books and my MP3 player, I don't know what I would have done. Listening to the narrators reading to me kept my mind off the pain I was in, even with the pain medicine and kept me company at night when I was trying to sleep. I had read to me Bunker Hill Nathaniel Philbrick, the bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea and Mayflower, brings his prodigious talents to the story of the Boston battle that ignited the American Revolution. Boston in 1775 is an island city occupied by British troops after a series of incendiary incidents by patriots who range from sober citizens to thuggish vigilantes. After the Boston Tea Party, British and American soldiers and Massachusetts residents have warily maneuvered around each other until April 19, when violence finally erupts at Lexington and Concord. In June, however, with the city cut off from supplies by a British blockade and Patriot militia poised in siege, skirmishes give way to outright war in the Battle of Bunker Hill. It would be the bloodiest battle of the Revolution to come, and the point of no return for the rebellious colonists. Philbrick brings a fresh perspective to every aspect of the story. He finds new characters, and new facets to familiar ones. The real work of choreographing rebellion falls to a thirty-three year old physician named Joseph Warren who emerges as the on-the-ground leader of the Patriot cause and is fated to die at Bunker Hill. Others in the cast include Paul Revere, Warren's fiancee, the poet Mercy Scollay, a newly recruited George Washington, the reluctant British combatant General Thomas Gage and his more bellicose successor William Howe, who leads the three charges at Bunker Hill and presides over the claustrophobic cauldron of a city under siege as both sides play a nervy game of brinkmanship for control. With passion and insight, Philbrick reconstructs the revolutionary landscape - geographic and ideological - in a mesmerizing narrative of the robust, messy, blisteringly real origins of America. And then a book that I highly recommend to any Coach or athletic. It a story of the 1936 Gold Medal eight man rowing team from Washington and the story of there lives. What I took away from this book is that no team can win as individuals until those individuals become one, a team. While it is about rowing, you could replace it with any sport and the story would be the same. The Boys in the Boat: Outstanding and I loved it! Daniel James Brown's robust book tells the story of the University of Washington's 1936 eight-oar crew and their epic quest for an Olympic gold medal, a team that transformed the sport and grabbed the attention of millions of Americans. The sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers, the boys defeated elite rivals first from eastern and British universities and finally the German crew rowing for Adolf Hitler in the Olympic games in Berlin, 1936. The emotional heart of the story lies with one rower, Joe Rantz, a teenager without family or prospects, who rows not for glory, but to regain his shattered self-regard and to find a place he can call home. The crew is assembled by an enigmatic coach and mentored by a visionary, eccentric British boat builder, but it is their trust in each other that makes them a victorious team. They remind the country of what can be done when everyone quite literally pulls together - a perfect melding of commitment, determination, and optimism. Drawing on the boys' own diaries and journals, their photos and memories of a once-in-a-lifetime shared dream, The Boys in the Boat is an irresistible story about beating the odds and finding hope in the most desperate of times - the improbable, intimate story of nine working-class boys from the American west who, in the depths of the Great Depression, showed the world what true grit really meant. It will appeal to readers of Erik Larson, Timothy Egan, James Bradley, and David Halberstam's The Amateurs.
July 28, 201313 yr ^:thumb: Good stuff, TOG! Sorry to hear about your health issues this summer. Speedy recovery to you!
July 28, 201313 yr For some reason that made me laugh out loud. Knowing my guy mcpapa you took it exactly as it was intended.
July 28, 201313 yr Author Haven't started on the "Engineer" series yet. Picked up the three books that follow "Game of Thrones" but I want to read them in order, so they will have to wait a while. Currently reading "Bunts" by George Will (that's where those little pearls in the "Obscure Records" thread came from. Also re-reading "The Dark Half"; Stephen King.
July 28, 201313 yr Author Knowing my guy mcpapa you took it exactly as it was intended. You guys are in the gutter.
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